JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. May 23, 2016—The U.S. Department of Labor came out with new overtime rules last week, including a doubling of the threshold. While the National Federation of Independent Business continues its fight against them, the nation’s voice of small business is also preparing its members for their compliance start date on December 1 of this year.
The media and Alaska small-business owners, whether or not they are NFIB members, are invited to listen to a special, free webinar on how to comply with the new overtime rules on Wednesday, May 25 at 8 a.m., AKDT. Click here to register.
The webinar will be presented by Tammy McCutchen, a principal at Littler Mendelson. In addition to serving as vice president and managing director of Strategic Solutions for Compliance HR, she is a leading authority on federal and state wage-hour laws and prevailing wage laws.
Reporters and editorial page editors wanting to stay abreast of the overtime issue can find a one-stop informational page at www.nfib.com/overtime. It has background information, the four steps needed to comply, prior media stories, videos, and NFIB’s efforts to fight the rules.
“This overtime rule is just one more Obama administration brick in an already heavy regulatory backpack weighing down small business job creation,” commented NFIB/Alaska State Director Denny DeWitt.
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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.
National Federation of Independent Business/Alaska
P.O. Box 34761
Juneau, AK 99801
907-723-6667
Twitter: @NFIB_AK
